Wearing-apparel



A. BLATTNEH.

WEARING APPAREL.

APPUcATloN FILED Ngv. 1, 1920.

PATENT orifice,

ABRAHAM: BLATTNER, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

WEARING-APPABEL.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented June 28, 1921.

Application and Navembe'r 1, 1920. semi No. 420,938.

To all whom t 'may concern.'

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM BLATTNER, a citizen of the United States, and a -resident of Pittsburgh' in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain A new and useful Improvements in Wearing-Apparel, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in wearing apparel, and has for an object to provide means in connection with dress shirts, for holding the tails of the shirt down in the proper position, and for holding the entire shirt in settled and proper position on the body.

A. further object is to prevent bulging of the shirt at the waist line, especially with trousers worn without Suspenders.

In the drawings:

Figure l is a perspective view showing the improvement,

Fig. 2 is a similar View of the shirt removed, l

Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective showing the securing means.

The present embodiment of the invention is shown in connection with a shirt l of the coat type, having the usual vents at the sides of the bottom which form three iiaps or tails 2 and 3, the former being at the rear and the latter at the front and consisting of two sections. In order to hold the shirt in proper position on the body, and to prevent bulging at the waist line, I connect these flaps by the mechanism shown more particularly in Figs. 2 and 3, the said connections passing from the sections of the front iiaps to the rear fiaps, between the legs of the wearer.

Each of these connectors consists of a strap 4 secured to one section of the front iiap 3, and a strap 5 secured to the rear flap 2. The forward strap 4. each side has a single connection with. the flap, while the strap 5 terminates in divergent tabs 6 which are secured on each side of the center of the rear hap, thus securing an extended con niction which holds the iaps smoothly in p ace.

Each pair of straps l and 5 is separably connected by snap fasteners, one of the sections 7 of each fastener being on the strap 4, while the other section '8 is on the strap 5. When the shirt is put on, after the shirt is buttoned, and the shirt is properly settled, the pairs of straps are connected by snap hook sections together.

I claim:

1. In a shirt including a continuous rear flap or skirt and a sectional front Hap or skirt, the combination with said skirts, of means for separably connecting said skirts', said means comprising a front strap section rigidly secured at one end to the lower inner edge of each of said front sections, and a rear strap section adapted for detachable connection at their front ends to the free ends of the front strap sections, the said rear strap sections termlnating in divergent tabs rigidly secured to the lowerend of the rear flap or skirt of the shirt, and complementary separable fasteners carried by the mating ends of said strap sections respectively, whereby they may be readily connected and disconnected.

2. A shirt supporter comprising a pair of separable strap members adapted to be connected to the skirts of a shirt on both sides of the center, each strap member consisting of a front section adapted to be secured at one end to the lower portion of the front fiap of the shirt, the other end of said section provided with a separable fastener element, and the rear section of said stra member provided at its front end with t e mating element of the separable fastener, the rear end of such section bifurcated, the bifurca tions diver ing and adapted to be secured to the rear skirt of the shirt.

ABRAHAM BLATTNER. 

